Shocking discovery: The universe is "fading away" faster than predicted

A groundbreaking study by Dutch scientists has just announced a shocking discovery: the universe is on the verge of extinction at a much faster rate than previous scientific predictions.

However, researchers also reassure that humanity does not need to panic too much about this prospect. According to current calculations, we still have about 10^78 years before the "end of the world" really comes - a huge number with 78 zeros following the number 1.

Still, this figure is a significant adjustment from previous estimates, which predicted the universe would last for 10^1,100 years.

Research from Radboud University, published in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astrophysicism, has shown this remarkable difference.

"The ultimate end of the universe is closer than expected, but fortunately it is still a very distant future," said the study's lead author, scientist Heino Falcke.

A team of three scientists at Radboud University focused on calculating the death time of the most stable celestial objects in the universe - white dwarf stars.

The basis for their calculations is Hawking radiation, a theoretical phenomenon named after the brilliant British physicist Stephen Hawking.

Hawking theorized in the mid-1970s that black holes are not completely "black" but rather leak a small amount of radiation, slowly disintegrating similar to an aspirin dissolved in water, and thus have a finite lifespan.

Scientists at Radboud University have extended this idea to other objects in the universe, discovering that their “evaporation times” depend on the density of matter. This allowed them to calculate the theoretical disintegration of the longest-lived celestial bodies, the most prominent of which are white dwarfs.

For humanity, the fear of the end of the universe is probably too far-fetched. If humans were to remain on Earth, we would be extinct long before that happened.

Scientists predict that the Sun will become too hot to sustain life on Earth in about 1 billion years, boiling away the oceans. And about 8 billion years later, the Sun will finally engulf the Earth, which will probably be barren and lifeless./.

(Vietnam News Agency/Vietnam+)

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